Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg now only eats what he kills

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Everyone has New Years’ resolutions that they generally don’t follow through with, but Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is staunch in keeping with his yearly “personal challenges,” as he calls them. Last year he set out to learn Chinese, and the year before he decided to wear a tie every day. This year, Zuckerberg is looking towards the dietary part of his life and decided to challenge himself by only eating meat he has quite literally killed himself.

The 27-year-old’s newest challenge first became public on May 4 when he announced that he had just killed a pig and a goat on his personal Facebook page to his 847 friends. Zuckerberg told Fortune that he takes on a personal challenge every year to learn something about the world, expand his interests, and teach himself more discipline. Since the billionaire spends most of his time working on Facebook, he chooses things that he’d normally not have the opportunity to do if he didn’t make the time for it.

Zuckerberg said that many people forget that a live being has to die for us to eat meat, so he’s aiming to not forget that and to be thankful for what he has. The challenge has resulted in him being mostly vegetarian, since killing an animal takes a bit more time than pulling out a frozen steak from the freezer.

Silicon Valley chef and local-restaurant owner Jesse Cool lives just eight houses away from Zuckerberg in Palo Alto, Calif. She has been introducing Zuckerberg to the farms in the area and helped him kill his first chicken, pig, and goat. The Facebook CEO doesn’t have to do the dirty job of plucking the feathers, skinning the animal, etc. Instead, he sends it off to a butcher in Santa Cruz who cuts it into pieces and makes the meat presentable.

Zuckerberg’s first kill was a lobster, but he has his eyes set on larger game. He’s mentioned that he’s interested in hunting, and we’re okay with that as long as it doesn’t turn into another GoDaddy CEO/elephant-killer situation.